Sorry for being late.
I attended the 2nd day of "Comic Market 80".(Aug.13)
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I departed from my home at 8:20. It was around 1 hour trip from my home to Tokyo Big Site.
I attended the Comic Market 79 last December, too. But, Summer and Winter is very different, you know. I and other attendee had to wait for a long time under the sunlight. Although many were sitting or squatting on the ground, I kept to stand up. Because I could get much wind from the Tokyo bay. Standing posture makes my surface area bigger than sitting. Some girls were using parasol, I covered my head by towel. Unfortunately, a few attendee were carried out using wheelchair. Maybe they were suffering from heatstroke...
10 am, the hall was opened. Everyone in the long line clapped their hands. It means that the top end of this line are going into the hall. However, we were still at the long queue... When I started to walk again with other attendee around me was 10:50 am. It was 90 minutes waiting time.
The circles on VOCALOID were located the East end of East 3rd hall. That's very near from the entrance. I made a beeline to Nijihara Peperon's booth first.
Just after I got his latest album, something was happened on my body.
I felt strange feeling just like a weak electric shock on my nose to eyes. And more, my field of vision became slightly darker and tiny stars or dust were started to fly in my eyes. Something is wrong! I escaped from the hall to the parking lot out of the hall immediately and had a short break. Despite sunny place, there was comfortable breeze from the bay.
From the symptom, I thought it might be either hyper ventilation syndrome or an oxygen shortage, on the contrary... I also suspected the shortage of blood circulation for my brain because of low blood pressure. This largest event on self publishing might have made me too excited, or the long waiting time under the sun might have made my vessel wider and decreased blood pressure.
Anyway, I was sure that it was not heatstroke. When I had sports drink, I didn't gulp everything in the bottle. When I had dried umeboshi (pickled ume(Prunus mume) fruits), I felt that was strongly salty. They mean that my body still kept water and salt.This sunny and breezing parking lot was more comfortable than the inside of the humid hall that was lack of ventilation. I stayed there for a while.
Fortunately, my strange symptom was disappeared rapidly. The sequel of shopping was started. I visited some booths that were already checked off.
I was grabbing an iPhone on my hand. The display indicates the map of the hall added tips of info about booths and circles by myself. Because it's small, I could carry and see the map very easily in the crowded hall.
The example of the map is below. The map itself was from Twitcmap.
http://twitcmap.jp/ 
I also visited some circles that were not checked out. Glanced at the name of circles, I confirmed what was displayed on the table. An illustrator whose pictures I bookmarked at PIAPRO were selling Negitoro (Miku & Luka) comic. Although I usually buy only CDs and it's very rare to buy self-published comic, I handed it and opened my wallet in front of the illustrator...
There was crowded, but not very crowded. At the "THE VOC@LOID M@STER 16" (the largest self publishing event limited to vocaloid, held in June), I was just like a packed sardine... However, the record temperature and humidity gave me pain. I had put a towel into my back between shirts to absorb my sweat effectively. But the towel completely got wet and made my outer clothes wet.
I have bought some previous released unknown CDs from a circle whose latest works were my aim. This time, I went to some circles I didn't know the name before, and watch the design of their CDs and check the name of VOCALOIDs, finally I made decisions whether I buy anything or not there.
If the jacket was very cute illustration of VOCALOID, the songs inside of the CD should be also cute.
This bizarre shopping made me buy some CDs sung by miki and Yuki Kaai, usually I wouldn't buy.
(For VOCALOID fans, THE V.M. is more important than Comiket, I suppose. Many producers tend to release the new workes for the V.M.)
I didn't go to the West hall.
I'm going to listen to these CDs from "Jacket buying". If I prefer any CDs, I will follow the circle. It is not recommendable way to buy CDs for everyone. Of course, this way can't make us select whether the works are good or bad before purchasing. We may have unnecessary and dislike CDs.
However, I wanted to find new producers by myself even if I pay for potentially boring CD, rather than following only famous and popular producers with bright long history.
I'm a fan of VOCALOID music since Hatsune Miku was released(2007). That long time have made me choose the name of producers and I didn't want to do so. That's why, I had checked out all VOCALOID music everyday (now I can't listen to all songs every night. Because I'm too busy to listen to everyting...), and I don't rely on the ranking still now.
However, as I already mentioned, I can't check out all songs now. That situation gradually made me depend on the rate of fame and the number of page view. That has been the thing to regret. I still wanted to meet new sound... So, I did such kind of gambling.
To tell the truth, I can't answer the name of the circles where I bought these CDs. Of course, it is easy to find their names and URL on the label. But, the situation that I'm going to listen to unknown music by unknown producers makes me excited!
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I've been get used to the hot weather because I've been working outdoor through the year. Certainly, that was no heatstroke.
However, on the other hand, I realized that we should be more sensitive to our health condition, again. If I didn't noticed or neglected the sign of health problem, I might fall down in a faint.
In my working place, I, my co-leagues and bosses frequently addressed "You never push yourself too much in the burning season!" each other. This time, this routine greeting was effective to protect myself from a serious health trouble.
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